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There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
Charles Darwin1809–1882On the Origin of Species (1859), Chapter XIVIn context
- Nature
- Science
What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
William Henry Davies1871–1940Leisure (1911)In context
- Time
Life is like a Ferrari, it goes too fast. But that’s ok, because you can’t afford it anyway.
Jim Davisborn 1945
Eternity is best spent under a general anesthetic – which is what is going to happen.
Richard Dawkinsborn 1941Interview with Joe Rogan on The Joe Rogan Experience (2019); (20 January 2019)
Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
James Dean1931–1955
The best of men cannot suspend their fate:
The good die early, and the bad die late.
Daniel Defoe1660–1731The Character of the Late Dr. Samuel Annesley, by Way of Elegy (1697)
- Good & Evil
Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death;⁠—the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!
Charles Dickens1812–1870A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Book the Third: The Track of a Storm, Chapter VIn context
- Liberty
“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
Charles Dickens1812–1870A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Book the Third: The Track of a Storm, Chapter XVIn context
Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.
Charles Dickens1812–1870Great Expectations (1861), Chapter IXIn context
- Change
Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together
Charles Dickens1812–1870Great Expectations (1861), Chapter XXVIIIn context
- Friendship
Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that.
Charles Dickens1812–1870A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave IIn context
Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? It may be, that in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man’s child.
Charles Dickens1812–1870A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave IIIIn context
- Charity
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
Charles Dickens1812–1870David Copperfield (1850), Chapter 1In context
- Character
Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, right reverends and wrong reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.
Charles Dickens1812–1870Bleak House (1853), Chapter XLVIIIn context
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson1830–1886Letter to T. W. Higginson (late 1872); Letters (1958) p. 380, no. 381